PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

All the Ministers of the Crown will be in town to-day with the exception of the Hon. T. Mackenzie, who is at Darg'aville. -

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) has had to postpone bis speech at Winton until tho middlo of next week, as he' is unable to leave for tho south until Monday ovening,

The Hon. R. M'Kenzie (Minister for Public Works), who has been on an extended visit-to the north of this island, returned to Wellington yesterday.

The resignation of Mr. F. H. Fraser, who has been for many years a member of the Wellington Harbour Board, was before that body last night. Mr. Fraser, who was one of the Government representatives on the board, was first appointed so long ago as November, 1892, and lie was chairman for the years 1897 ' and 1898. The chairman (Mr. R. Fletcher) moved a resolution to place on record the board's appreciation of the services rendered by Mr. Fraser during the last 17£ years. The motion was seconded by Mr. C. W. Jones, supported by Mr. J. G. Harknesß, and carried unanimously.

Mr. William Tindall, an old and highly respected settler, died at Springlands On Tuesday afternoon, aged 70 years, states a Blenheim Press Association telegram.

Mr. Alfred Hill has (says tho "Sydney Daily Telegraph") been retained by the J. C. Williamson management as deputy-oonductor of tho grand opera tour of Now Zealand. Tho company will go across the Tasman Sea exactly as' it is at present constituted. Tho

prime donna, Mdllo. Bel Sorel, Miss Amy Castles, Signorina Maria Pampari, and Miss Eil.v Barnato, will tour. The venture is a big one, and musiclovers of: New Zealand are fortunate in having so raro a treat before thorn.

The Bev. H. A. Kennedy, one of tbo forerunners of the Anglican General Missign, loaves for Auckland this morning.

Mr. George Prouse, of Clifton Torrace, returned from a trip to Australia by tho Moana yesterday. • Mr. C. M. Montefiore, general in&nager in New Zealand for the Ocean Accident and Fire Insurance Company, leaves on a business trip to Englaudl to-morrow week, connecting at Sydney with the Orient liner Orvieto, which vessel ho will leave at Marseilles, to proceed overland to London. During his absence, the supervising duties iot the whole of the Dominion will be in the hands of Mr. Liardet, head of- tin Wellington office. Mi. llontefiore, does not expect to be away longer than five months. At a meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors on Monday, it was unanimously agreed, on the recommendation of the College Committee, that Dr. C. Coleridge Farr, who during the past six years has been lecturer on physics at the college, be appointed! Professor of Physics, in accordance with the recommendation of the gentlemen at Home -who acted: as selectors. There were some twenty candidates. . Mr. David Nield, Pastor of the Church of God, Wellington, and Mrs. Rosalind A. Young-Nield, have booked passages to Hobart by the s.s. Moana., Their intention is to see the eclipse on May 9, and then proceed to Sydney to hold meetings, ana on June 1 proceed to Norfolk Island to do missionary work and visit relations of Mrs. Nield, whom she has not seen for 40 years. Captain Rose, of the Salvation Army Prison Gate Home, Christchurch, and Captain Jenkins, of the; North Island division of the Salvation' Army, were passengers, from Sydney on the Moana, which arrived in Wellington yesterday. Mr. J. R. Campbell, the Union Company's superintendent in Glasgow, who has been on a visit to New Zealand, is returning Home by the Manuka, which leaves Wellington to-morrow.